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I am seeing this same/similar comment on this thread which has been posted by three quite new accounts. Is this quite normal on HN now or is it some bots farming engagement? Btw, I'm a new member here, knew about HN since a long time but never bothered to make an account up until now

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>Is this quite normal on HN now or is it some bots farming engagement?

As you can see, my account is not new. I thought the comment will be funny. Not every comment should be terribly ingenious, long thought and crafted to show people how smart the commenter is. As a commenter you have the right to be spontaneous.

> As you can see, my account is not new. I thought the comment will be funny.

Yeah I did find it funny, no doubt. Was just asking of general culture here

Looks like one old-ish account with a number of submissions and comments, and two very-similarly-named copycats that are getting voted down to oblivion. Not very common here, but it happens.

One of them seems to have deleted the comment just as I commented about this. Also downvoting is an option? It doesn't seem to be visible here.

Downvoting is only available to users above a certain karma threshold, I believe around 500 or so.

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